Jake, Jake, Jake...

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As Don Surber observed last week, Jake Tapper, via Twitter, is trying to get Sarah Palin to appear on 'This Week," ABC's Sunday TV talk show which Tapper, for the time being at least, is hosting.

Meanwhile, streiff at RedState.com noted Saturday, the press corpse (pun intentional) is circling the wagons around Helen Thomas. Sarah Palin also picked up on this, and she sent this Twitter message:

SarahPalinUSA Helen Thomas press pals condone racist rant?Heaven forbid”esteemed”press corps represent society’s enlightened elite;Rest of us choose truth

To which Tapper replied

jaketapper @SarahPalinUSA Who condoned it?

Tapper's point -- that silence is not tantamount to condoning -- is, as streiff points out, "simple obtuseness." One is reminded of all the good people -- not only Germans, but the world over -- who sat in silence as Europe's Jews were rounded up and herded into cattle cars as the long black trains made their way to the death camps. Not to try to equate the two situations, but just to point out that silence is in many cases not golden. If Helen Thomas' colleagues can't see the dark irony in her remark that Israel's Jews should be sent back to the very same places where they were so efficiently slaughtered, then the press community suffers from a disease much more debilitating than a lack of sensitivity.

One wonders if Tapper's tweet is just part of his Twitter campaign to try to lure Gov. Palin onto his show. If so, we're not sure this is quote the way to go about it. If she can argue with Tapper on Twitter, why bother to appear on "This Week" at all? We believe it's more than that. The media protects its own, and Tapper, as part of the media, is part of the problem. If there ever was a time for the members of the press corps to condemn the actions of one of its own, this was it, and Tapper missed the boat. Thomas' own speaker's agent saw fit to terminate her as a client, but her press buddies, by and large, couldn't even bring themselves to criticize her. To his credit, Craig Crawford was one notable exception.

Even more troubling, the silence of Jake Tapper and his media colleagues is just another sign of the hostility of the "progressive" American press toward the state of Israel. Sarah Palin is right to call them out.

- JP

Gov. Palin: The 'unconscionable indecency' of Helen Thomas

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Sarah Palin continued to keep the pressure on the corrupt and biased media Friday with a rebuke of Washington journalist Helen Thomas via Twitter:

Helen, Helen, Helen... unimaginable misunderstandng of Jewish history...& unconscionable indecency.Press corps colleagues calling u on this?

Thomas had said that Jews who live in Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go "home."

Later Friday, the antediluvian reporter issued a written apology, saying:

"I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians."

She said the comments "do not reflect" her "heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance."

“May that day come soon,” she added.

- JP

But who will save the country from Obama-Biden?

From Allahpundit, we learn that antediluvian reporter Helen Thomas, at a "roast" of Katie Couric, said that perky Katie "saved the country" with her "gotcha" interview of Sarah Palin. Couric had prepared for the interview by consulting with Obama advisor Sam Nunn and former Colin Powell aide Richard Haass.

It's not clear how a President McCain and a Vice President Palin would have destroyed the nation, but it's apparent for all with eyes to see how President Obama has quadrupled the country's debt, gotten the government in the automobile, banking and finance businesses and has not the first clue about how to defend the nation. As for Vice President Biden, every time he opens his mouth, the world is treated to verbal stupidity.

Poor, deluded old fossil...

Update: More from Tim Graham at NewsBusters.org.

- JP